"A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close."
Issey Ogata
as Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
Robert Dawson
as General Douglas MacArthur
Kaori Momoi
as Empress Kojun
Shiro Sano
as The chamberlain
Dmitriy Podnozov
as
Shinmei Tsuji
as Old servant
Taijirō Tamura
as scientist
Georgi Pitskhelauri
as midshipman
Hiroya Morita
as Suzuki, Prime Minister
Toshiaki Nishizawa
as Yonai, Minister of the Navy
Naomasa Musaka
as Anami, Minister of the War
Kōjirō Kusanagi
as Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tetsurō Tsuno
as General Umezu
Jun Haichi
as Abe, Minister of the Interior
Kojun Ito
as Hironuma
Tōru Shinagawa
as Sakomizu
Aleksandr Balsanov
Mikhail Terentyev
as US army captain
Sergey Nozdrin
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Valeriy Li
as victim of explosion
Laura Pitskhelauri
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Valeriy Sklyarov
Pavel Kornakov
Vadim Badmacyrenov
Filipp Shkolnik
Jeremy Noble
Writer
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director
Yuriy Arabov
Marco Mueller
Producer
Director of Photography
Igor Kalenov
Viviana Queirolo-Bertoglio
Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Andrey Sigle
Andrei Zertsalov
Music
Elena Zhukova
Production Design
Sergey Smilga
Set Designer
Lidiya Kryukova
Costume Design
Aleksandr Mazur
Additional Director of Photography
Sergey Moshkov
Sound Director
Zhanna Rodionova
Makeup Artist
Anatoliy Rodionov
Sergey Ivanov
Editor
Alexander Rodnyansky
Evgeny Grigoryev
Executive Producer